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Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Winston Churchill

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NLT-219
CR 6326
DIT 706352
D'CLASSITIO by authority of
URGENT
State Dept its to
NARS 8-10-72
NL memo to NLT
PERSONAL AND FOP SEGRET
4-12-73
NUMBER 29
Initials BRZ Date 5/21/74
TO:
THE PRIME MINISTER
FROM: THE PRESIDENT
AND
N: SERVICE" RECUROS
SUVERN and
REFERRING TO GENERAL EISENHOWER'S MESSAGE
SCAF 358 OF 7 MAY AND ASSUMING IT IS AGREEABLE TO YOU
I WILL ANNOUNCE SURRENDER AT 9 A.M WASHINGTON TIME ON
TUESDAY 8 MAY AS RECOMMENDED BY EISENHOWER.
THIS IS A MOMENTOUS OCCASION FOR THE UNITED
NATIONS AND THE WORLD.
I
AM REPEATING THIS MESSAGE TO MARSHAL STALIN.
(SIGNED) TRUMAN
Saller
Ada State

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953 V-E Day, 1945 World War, 1939-1945

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